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When bedtime rolls around, settling three kids down after a long day of #quarantinelife and turmoil in the news is no easy task. A few bathroom trips and some extra glasses of water later, everyone is tucked under their covers with their favorite Slumberkin snuggler. I've found these toys to be a bridge when talking with my kids about current events that are confusing or scary. I am dedicated to raising antiracist children, and the first step is talking with them about racism and having honest conversations.Sometimes as I leave the room, I can hear my 7-year-old quietly whispering to...

Laurence King Publishing My First Story Puzzle Review We love games and puzzles in this family! When I saw these new My First Story puzzles for young children, I thought they looked really cute and like a great way to learn too. My First Story Puzzle: Animals and My First Story Puzzle: Nature, are the first two in a series of games for children aged 2 years and up. They are colourful jigsaws that each tell a simple story, a short sequence of events. Each puzzle has three pieces and you get five puzzles in each set. The puzzles feature specially commissioned...

The ground floor of the Holiday Inn is full of babies. Some have name tags. I can see a Noel, a Luciano, a Jennie. There’s a Zachary and a Noya, too. Others are being pushed around in strollers — those posh, stiff old-fashioned ones your super-pretentious friends bought because they thought it made them look like a member of the British Royal Family. What’s weird though is there’s no crying. Even weirder: Most of these babies sit slumped in baskets with a price over their heads: £250, £500, $2,000.Out of the corner of my eye, I see a guy who’s...

Foster care is the world’s slowest roller coaster in the best of times. We can all agree these are not the best of times. Quarantine has not — shockingly — changed this. If every court date in The Before Times seemed to dangle an ending like some kind of carrot, everything in The Terrible Now is paused, all the players in a horror film Freeze Tag, frozen until someone — the judge, the virus — tags us free. What was a slow roller coaster going for me and my husband since 2017 when our foster son arrived in our home...

Hi. How is your heart? I want to start this post by saying that any emotion that you are feeling is valid and to acknowledge that the reality of the present moment is heavy and hard. I have been actively engaging in and posting about the Black Lives Matter movement on my social media feeds but I haven’t written a post here on my blog. For the record, and not to make an excuse, the toddler toys post that went live on Saturday was pre-written and pre-scheduled. I should have re-scheduled it but I spent the day off of my...